The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-14
SOUTHERN GLEANINos.

In the course of a recent violent storm
on the Florida coast an eleven-fOot alliga-
tor crawied out of the st. Johns river
where it flows into the sea and started
out to dnd shelter among the sand dunes.
He was captured alive by fishermen, and
will be sent to the sub-tropicaI exhibition.
Two ''honest farmers of Kentucky are
the latest vic Tins of misplaced confidence.
The unsOphisticated graugers were offered
$40, 1000 worth Of works of art resembling
genuine money of the United States so
closely that other grangers might be con-
fidently expected to take it as good cur
rency. The price of the ornamental paper
was 500, and the honest farmers paid
$500 down and deposited S400 in the ex-
press Office. When the box supposed to
contain the art treasures arrived, only
common brick was found in it. The dis
appointed agriculturists are suing the ex-
press company for the 800.
The official returns from thirty-three
counties in Tennessee with the balance
semi official, give a majority Of 70, 5,7TS
against the prOhibtory amendment. The
chairman of the State Liquor Dealers
Association, now claims a majority OF So,
600.
A four-legged chicken was born near
Lexing ton, Miss, one day recently.
The oyster trade on the Mississippi coast
is enjoying a great boom.
Virginia winter apples are scarce, and
are selling nigh.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has con-
frmed the death sentence of Bill Patterson,
who helped Turner kill Jennie Bowman.
One of the boasts of an interior town in
Florida is that it can show up more people
to meet trains than any place of its size
in the South.
The Board of Trade of Aberdeen, Miss,
iS hal iT1er To ia Ia
placing a boat in the river st that place.
The new Y. NJ. G. A. Hall at Atlanta,
Ca, is one of the handsomest buildings in
that city. 1t cost over 100000
The editor OF the Brookhaven (Miss.)
Nel0S says: "The only thing that keeps
our spirits up now is to sit in our window
and sing out: EAh theren as the girls pass
down the avenue"
A negro, sentenced to five years. impris
Onment for larceny, committed suicide in
the court room at Chattanooga, Tenn,
when sentence was pronounced against
him.
The grand jury recently organized in
Gwinnett County, Ga, was composed OF
sixteen Methodists, six Baptists, and one
liberal, yet it ignored more complaints
than any grand jury the county ever had.
Tallahassee, the capital of Florida, is now
dry. The licenses have all expired, and
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County Commissioners not to renew them,
so that it is impossible to get a drink of
whisky in the city.
A safe in the store of Walter Bros, at
Dover, Tenn, was broken open few
nights ago and robbed Of S., ,000 Three
suspicious-looking men, who have been
hanging about the place and who disap-
peared after the robbery, are suspected,
and the officers are after them.
E3-E,5 h -7,aI,o,-
foone creek, in Georgia, few days ago,
when one got bite and saw his cork go
down like a shot. He began pulling in,
and with the assistance of his companion
succeeded, after a good deal of difficulty,
in bringing out and killing a turtle that
weighed two hundred pounds.
Joe Edwards, Of Richmond, Va, can
stay under water one minute and h'rty
seconds. During his life Joe has 60 en-
more than one hundred bodies out of the
waters around Richmond. He has been
there since 1851, and for eighteen years
has been in business around the wharves.
In the winter Joe opeus oysters; in the
summer he dives.
The County Jail of Coffee County, Ca.
was burned to the ground few nights
ago. A negro, who was incarcerated
therein, attempted to burn out a passage.
The fire baf1ed him however, and burned
the GnEIr6 DullQln2. his cQafroQ DOOy
was found in the ruins.
John Hester, a negro, went Opossum
hunting near Atlanta, Ca, a few nights
ago. At the same time his wife went to
preaching. They locked up the house,
leaving two children, aged six and eight
wears, prisoners within. When they re-
turned they found the house burned down
and the charred remains of the children in
the ruins.
Twenty miles of the Powell IS Valley
CTenn.) railroad has been let. Dirt was
broken last Saturday, and the con tractors
now have five hundred men at work. The
road runs from Knoxville to Cumberland
Gap, a distance of sixty-five miles.
A difficulty arose a few days ago be
tween Dudley Handley and Alex Richard
son, two Of the colored deck crew of the
steamer Helena, which resulted in Rich
ardsOn being shot and instantly killed.
The tragedy was enacted while the boat
was taking on freight at Fritz's landing in
Crittenden County, Tenn. After killing
Richardson, HandIey fed into the woods
and had not been arrest ed.
Henry Duke, a weH-known farmer in
Ballard County, KY, trade d farms with a
gentleman from the adjoining county of
Carlisle few days ago. Thinking he was
wOrsted in the trade, he wanted to rue it
This was refused, and Duke brooded over
his trouble until he became violently in
sane. Subsequently he assaulted Thomas,
with whom he had traded, with an ak and
came near killing him Duke has been
taken to the asylum for treatment.
A collision occurred on the Cincinnati
Southern road one mile south of Oakdale,
Tenn, a few days ago, completely wreck
ing both locomotives and throwing about
twenty cars from the track.
JObuSOr1 Of Chica on bof+aY. Lvuovy-y,
as the express rObber of Memphis, was set
at liberty in Chattanooga, q few days ago.
In 1915 he was arrested at Memphis for an
express robbery, and sentenced to twenty
one years in the penitentiary. He is a very
intelligent man, and during the year 1884,
while serving his term, is said to have
framed bill that has resulted in his lib
erty. The bill, which became law, short
ened the good time allowed prisoners. His
sentence had already been commuted to
sixteen years for services during a fire in
in the penirentiary.
Cleveland is going to Atlanta.
John Hall, an escaped convict, was ar
rested at Chattanooga, Tenn, few days
ago, by the sheriff of Loudon County, that
State. He was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for an assault on a girl, at Knox
vile, and the sheriff was notified that if
an attempt was made to take Hall through
that town he would be lynched. The
sheriff acted wisely, and stopped before
Knoxville was reached.
The famous Dismal swamp of Virginia
is no longer used as a shelter for runaway
slaves, of course, but it is believed to be
the hiding place Of at least one hundred
white men, who, for various reasons, want
to retire to private life for a spell
A Kentucky girl snapped a kernel Of
corn at her lover and put out his eye.
In the Baton Rouge (La.) court a mo-
tion to arrest judgment IN the case of ex-
Secretary Of State William a. Strong,
charged with embezzlement, was over
ruled, and Strong was sentenced to two
years at hard labor in the penitentiary